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Research
Chemistry and Climate
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| Name / Acronym: | PINATUBO |
| Full name: | The impact of Pinatubo on tropospheric
chemistry and climate |
| Description: | Methane is the second-most important gas driving anthropogenic climate change after
carbon dioxide. Projections of methane for the 21st century are very uncertain because of
the current lack of process understanding.
The eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991 affected the global atmospheric composition and
climate. Pinatubo aerosols blocked solar radiation, leading to changes in photochemistry.
Cooler temperatures after the eruption affected natural methane emissions from
wetlands. This PhD project aims at a better understanding of the processes that
influenced the methane burden in our atmosphere after the eruption. The state-of-the art chemistry transport model
TM5 will be used to simulate the Pinatubo eruption and the effects on photochemistry and methane
emissions; the climate model EC-Earth to simulate the global climate impacts.
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| Run Period: | 01 July 2010 - 01 July 2014 |
| Source of finance: | Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) |
| Coordinator: | IMAU |
| Partners: | Maarten Krol, Thomas Röckmann (IMAU) |
| KNMI Team: | Twan van Noije, Michiel van Weele |
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Nitrogen oxide distribution simulated with the TM model
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